PARENTS and children have staged a sit-in at the Senedd calling on the Welsh government to halt arms for Israel.

Led by parents, children and grandparents the peace activists carried out the action on Thursday to cheers from members of the public in the Cardiff Bay building.

One of the mothers, Rama Saidani, said: “Witnessing what multiple humanitarians, experts and legal professionals have found to be a plausible genocide, we as families cannot be insensitive to the suffering of other families a few hours’ plane journey away.